Manhattan strip club Scores is continuing its lawsuit against a prominent New Jersey heart doctor over $130,000 in disputed charges — even after four strippers admitted to drugging the cardiologist and then swiping his credit card for phony lap dances, top-shelf liquor and hefty t﷽ips.
“It’s shocking that Scores would continue to pursue the case in light of the guilty pleas by their employees,” Dr. Zyad Younan‘s attorney, Michael Weinstein, told The Post.
“Scores has decided to align themselves with crooks and felons,” Weinstein alleged.
Scores’ lawyer, Alison Blaine, declined to comment.
The parties were in Manhattan Supre🧸me Court on Wednesday to set deposition dates.
Weinstein said that prosecutors — who have not charged the gentlemen’s club in the stripper scam — should take notice of how Scores classifies and pays their strippers and whether they’re complying with the law.
Younan, who is countersuing Scores and the four s🗹trippers, plans to ask the cour🐼t for default judgments against the women, who were no-shows in court.
Weinstein warned that he would use the Son of Sam law to gﷺo after the strippers if they try to sell their stories to Hollywood.
In TV and magazine interviews, two of the women, former Scores “massage” girl Karina Pascucci and cohort Roselyn Keo, have already tried to blame the victim for his role in their scheme.
“We don’t think they should capitalize on their criminal activity,” said Victoria Cioppettini, Weinstein’s co-counsel.
Stripper Marsi Rosen, 29, and Pascucci, 27, were sentenced to weekends in jail for four months and five years’ probation in January as part of a plea deal on conspiracy, grand larceny and other charges.
The crew’s ringleader, Samantha Barbash, 41, and Keo, 31, also took deals. Keo’s sentencing is scheduled for March 31 and Barbash is due in court on April 28.
The famed flesh emporium first sued Younan in April 2014, claiming the Holmdel, NJ, resident voluntarily visited the club four times in November 2013 — then disputed the American Express charges, saying he couldn’t have rung up that high a bill without having been drugged.
Just two months after Scores sued Younan, the cunning quartet was hau🎀led into court in handcuffs.
